NIGHT PRAYER: Sunday 3/14

On Sundays, Night Prayer will focus on one of the songs from the day's celebration of Mass. Tonight we reflect on today's response to the first reading, Psalm 137. 

 

To a melody born of their suffering, Lord,

your chosen people,

captive in a foreign land, 

sent up their  plaintive cry

for they could not find a voice

to sing the songs of home,

the songs of Zion,

your song, Lord,

the song of your glory and praise...

 

I've been there, too, Lord:

captive in a place of pain,

lost in forests of confusion,

wandering a desert of loneliness,

my voice mute, no song to sing,

my faint prayer but an echo 

in the sounds of silence...

 

I'm not in those places tonight, Lord,

but others are and many are

without a song to sing,

just when the heart begs a tune

to lift to you the lyrics of a soul

whose prayer cries out from deep within,

aching to be heard...

Hear your people's unsung prayer

and place a song within their hearts, Lord,

a song to give you praise

and your chosen children hope

that you are by their side

and that all shall be well,

that all manner of things

shall be well...

 

Help us sing your song, Lord,

whatever the times,

wherever we may be

for with you by our side

we are never far from home...

Protect us, Lord, while we lie awake

and watch over us as we  sleep

that awake, we might keep watch with you

and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

On The Willows from Godspell  

 

 

On the willows
There we hung up our lyres
For our captors there
Required of us songs
And our tormentors mirth

 

On the willows
There we hung up our lyres
For our captors there
Required of us songs
And our tormentor's mirth

 

Saying, sing us one
Of the songs of Sion
Sing us one of the songs of Sion

But how can we sing?
Sing the Lord's song?
In a foreign land?

 

On the willows
There we hung up our lyres

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